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Job summary

Main area
Surgical Services
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract
Secondment: 12 months (with a view to a permanent position)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 08.00- 16.00)
Job ref
358-6432562-RRCV
Employer
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Glenfield Hospital
Town
Leicester
Salary
£25,147 - £27,596 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
23/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Deputy Administration Manager

NHS AfC: Band 4

We are actively promoting flexible working options, helping you to manage a work / life balance

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Deputy Admin Manager to  work within Surgical Services (Glenfield Hospital)

Band 4

The post holder is required to provide leadership, direction, and support to the administrative team, whilst developing effective working relationships, efficient practices and maintaining a motivated workforce. As deputy to the administration manager, the post holder further functions as an expert resource and point of contact on all matters relating to administration across Surgical Services including development of local practice and implementation of Trust policy. They ensure administrative staff are compliant with all Trust policy and procedures. The post holder is expected to place patients, relatives, and their careers at the centre of service delivery, providing support and guidance to everyone making contact with the service. The post holder will ensure effective liaison with all internal and external partners and ensure data quality is of the highest standard and ensure targets are met.

Main duties of the job

  • Maintaining  and Validating the RTT improvement reports 
  • Managing the health roster for the administrative team, working within Trust guidelines,
  • In a timely, efficient, and organised manner, providing sufficient cover to all
  • Manage staff's annual leave, sickness absence and time owing in accordance with Trust policy.  Develop and implement effective monitoring.
  • Effectively manage shorty long-term staff absence ensuring ongoing maintenance of a high-quality administrative service at all times.
  • In the resolution of administrative queries and problems. Where such issues cannot be resolved, escalate these appropriately to the Admin Manager in a timely manner.
  • Support the Administration Manager in the recruitment and selection in the recruitment and selection in accordance with Trust Policy.
  • Support the Administrative Manager in ensuring the service is provided within budget.
  • Support CMG management in the investigation and resolution of verbal written complaints within agreed timescales.
  • Support the Service/General Manager in management of change processes as required.
  • Provide effective leadership and motivation to all administrative staff, creating a positive working environment in which staff are valued and respected.
  • Establish and chair regular administrative staff meetings, ensuring staff have a formal route to raise issues and receive Information.
  • Waiting List Managemet

  • Data Quality Reports

Working for our organisation

We are one of the biggest and busiest NHS trusts in the country, incorporating the General, Glenfield and Royal Infirmary hospitals. We have our very own Children’s Hospital and run one of the country’s leading heart centres.

Our team is made up of more than 17,000 staff providing a range of services primarily for the one million residents of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We work with partners at the University of Leicester and De Montfort University providing world-class teaching to nurture and develop the next generation of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, many of whom go on to spend their working lives with us.

Our purpose is to provide ‘Caring at its best’ and our staff have helped us create a set of values that embody who we are and what we’re here to do. They are:

  • We focus on what matters most
  • We treat others how we would like to be treated
  • We are passionate and creative in our work
  • We do what we say we are going to do
  • We are one team and we are best when we work together

Our patients are at the heart of all we do and we believe that ‘Caring at its best’ is not just about the treatments and services we provide, but about giving our patients the best possible experience.

About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust: (leicestershospitals.nhs.uk)

The detailed job description and main responsibilities are included as an attachment to this advert.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Managing the Admin Team
  • Sickness absence/Appraisals/Training 
  • Validation of long wait RRT Reports 
  • Waiting List Management, ensuring patient receive treatment within the correct timeframe 
  • Management of urgent referrals and transfer of patients

Please see job description for main responsibilities 

Person specification

Education and qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to GCSE Math and English C or above
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of PDP

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • • Administration experience at least 12 months •Use of IT systems and Microsoft office *Experience of dealing with customers/patients
Desirable criteria
  • RTT experience
  • People management

Communcation Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent communication skills Ability to demonstrate tact and diplomacy Team player
  • Ability to resolve problems autonomously
  • Ability to adapt to difficult situations

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of efficient planning and organisational skills and ability to prioritise workload
  • Ability to resolve problems autonomously

Planning and organistation Skills

Essential criteria
  • Able to act on own initiative and ability to work without close supervision. Able to work under pressure

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Susan Holt
Job title
General Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07960873971
Additional information

Fore further information please contact 

Ed Kilcawley, Vascular Service Manager on 07966402044

or email- edward.kilcawley@uhl-tr.nhs.uk

Jo Kaur, Cardiothoracic Service Manager on 07773625258

or email - [email protected]

 

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
Paget house, 2 West street
Leicester
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LE1 6XP
Telephone
0116 502 7298
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